Celebrate Women's History Month

Anna > Anna's Quotes

Showing 1-30 of 147
« previous 1 3 4 5
sort by

    like
  • #1
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night
    tags: action, attitude, choice, imagination, inspiration, life, pretend
    18031 likes

    • like
  • #2
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut
    tags: humour, telekinetics
    10121 likes

    • like
  • #3
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
    6030 likes

    • like
  • #4
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph:
    THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED
    FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
    WAS MUSIC”
    ― kurt vonnegut
    4305 likes

    • like
  • #5
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “And so it goes...”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
    tags: classics
    4738 likes

    • like
  • #6
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to college.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country
    tags: college, semicolons, writing
    3241 likes

    • like
  • #7
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you've got a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies-"God damn it, you've got to be kind.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut
    tags: fact
    4000 likes

    • like
  • #8
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, The Sirens of Titan
    tags: life, love
    3759 likes

    • like
  • #9
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “The last thing I ever wanted was to be alive when the three most powerful people on the whole planet would be named Bush, Dick and Colon.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut
    tags: humor, politics
    2167 likes

    • like
  • #10
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut Jr., A Man Without a Country
    3174 likes

    • like
  • #11
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “And Lot's wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human. So she was turned into a pillar of salt. So it goes.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
    2685 likes

    • like
  • #12
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “To be is to do - Socrates

    To do is to be - Sartre

    Do Be Do Be Do - Sinatra”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut
    tags: humor
    1779 likes

    • like
  • #13
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “I found me a place where I can do good without doing any harm, and I can see I'm doing good, and them I'm doing good for know I'm doing it, and they love me, Unk, as best they can. I found me a home.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, The Sirens of Titan
    92 likes

    • like
  • #14
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “Many people need desperately to receive this message: 'I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, Timequake
    tags: not-alone
    1430 likes

    • like
  • #15
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
    ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
    tags: heart, importance, inspiration, secret, the-little-prince
    10001 likes

    • like
  • #16
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.”
    ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Airman's Odyssey
    tags: love
    6194 likes

    • like
  • #17
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “People have forgotten this truth," the fox said. "But you mustn’t forget it. You become responsible forever for what you’ve tamed. You’re responsible for your rose.”
    ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
    3573 likes

    • like
  • #18
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.”
    ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
    tags: caring, inspirational, love, roses, time
    5337 likes

    • like
  • #19
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched, they are felt with the heart.”
    ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
    tags: inspirational
    4441 likes

    • like
  • #20
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “It is such a mysterious place, the land of tears.”
    ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
    tags: the-little-prince
    2407 likes

    • like
  • #21
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “I shall look at you out of the corner of my eye, and you will say nothing. Words are the source of misunderstandings.”
    ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    tags: communication, inspirational, philosophy
    1397 likes

    • like
  • #22
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “Of course I’ll hurt you. Of course you’ll hurt me. Of course we will hurt each other. But this is the very condition of existence. To become spring, means accepting the risk of winter. To become presence, means accepting the risk of absence.”
    ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY - MAN
    tags: absence, existence, fear, hurt, love, risk
    2504 likes

    • like
  • #23
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”
    ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Airman's Odyssey
    tags: design, exupery, perfection
    1184 likes

    • like
  • #24
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “Love consists of not looking each other in the eye, but of looking outwardly in the same direction.”
    ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Airman's Odyssey
    tags: love
    570 likes

    • like
  • #25
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “No single event can awaken within us a stranger whose existence we had never suspected. To live is to be slowly born.”
    ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Flight To Arras
    tags: life, philosophy
    649 likes

    • like
  • #26
    Leonard Bernstein
    “This will be our reply to violence:
    to make music more intensely,
    more beautifully,
    more devotedly than ever before.”
    ― Leonard Bernstein
    tags: creativity, music
    106 likes

    • like
  • #27
    Athol Fugard
    “To know nothing about yourself is to be constantly in danger of nothingness, those voids of non-being over which a man walks the tightrope of his life.”
    ― Athol Fugard, Tsotsi
    15 likes

    • like
  • #28
    Athol Fugard
    “Anybody who thinks there's nothing wrong with this world needs to have his head examined. Just when things are going all right, without fail someone or something will come along and spoil everything. Somebody should write that down as a fundamental law of the Universe. The principle of perpetual disappointment. If there is a God who created this world, he should scrap it and try again.”
    ― Athol Fugard, Master Harold...and the Boys
    tags: disappointment, god, law, laws-of-the-universe, life, life-lesson, people, people-suck, religion, universe
    44 likes

    • like
  • #29
    Marilynne Robinson
    “This is an interesting planet. It deserves all the attention you can give it.”
    ― Marilynne Robinson, Gilead
    1387 likes

    • like
  • #30
    Marilynne Robinson
    “These people who can see right through you never quite do you justice, because they never give you credit for the effort you're making to be better than you actually are, which is difficult and well meant and deserving of some little notice.”
    ― Marilynne Robinson, Gilead
    tags: judgement
    262 likes



Rss
« previous 1 3 4 5
All Quotes



Tags From Anna’s Quotes

action
attitude
choice
imagination
inspiration
life
pretend
humour
telekinetics
classics
college
semicolons
writing
fact
love
humor
politics
not-alone
heart
importance
secret
the-little-prince
caring
inspirational
roses
time
communication
philosophy
absence
existence
fear
hurt
risk
design
exupery
perfection
creativity
music
disappointment
god
law
laws-of-the-universe
life-lesson
people
people-suck
religion
universe
judgement